Directed by Chen Chi-hwa • 1978 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Lung Chun-erh, Chin Cheng-lan
One of Jackie Chan’s first forays into the kung-fu comedy style that would become his signature is an unabashedly silly historical adventure in which he plays a hapless student who assumes the identity of a dead martial-arts master and is launched on a treacherous quest to retrieve a sacred jade plant. Released just months before DRUNKEN MASTER would launch him to superstardom, HALF A LOAF OF KUNG FU finds Chan spoofing the conventions of the typical Hong Kong martial-arts movie to hilarious effect.
Directed by Lo Wei • 1978 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, James Tien, Yuen Biao
Jackie Chan plus a gaggle of ghosts yields nonstop comic pleasures in this off-the-wall slice of supernatural slapstick. Chan is a class-clown martial-arts student at a Shaolin temple who gets a surprise lesson in ...
Directed by Jackie Chan • 1979 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, James Tien, Dean Shek
Jackie Chan made his directorial debut with this rollicking martial-arts comedy, a fiercely entertaining showcase for his superhuman agility and daredevil spirit. He stars as Shing Lung, a lazy but gifted figh...
Directed by Jackie Chan • 1980 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Wei Pai
The first film Jackie Chan made at Golden Harvest—the studio where he would go on to make many of his greatest films—was a record-breaking box-office smash that firmly established him as Hong Kong’s leading kung-...
